1 6.72 Wed Jul 24 18:38:19 BST 2013
2 No changes from 6.71_01
4 6.71_01 Wed Jul 24 09:31:07 BST 2013
6 * Resolved more regressions in parse_version code
8 6.70 Tue Jul 23 21:55:23 BST 2013
9 No changes from 6.69_09
11 6.69_09 Sun Jul 21 09:22:40 BST 2013
13 * RT#86976 Fix version parsing bug introduced in 6.69_05
16 6.69_08 Wed Jul 17 00:36:28 BST 2013
18 * RT#86976 Fix version parsing bug introduced in 6.69_05
20 6.69_07 Tue Jul 16 15:32:25 BST 2013
22 * RT#4550 report the file created after make dist
25 * RT#66113 strip control characters from ABSTRACT
26 * RT#20662 Don't check for config.h if it doesn't exist
28 6.69_06 Fri Jul 12 14:49:32 BST 2013
30 * RT#64163 clean_subdirs infinite loop if subdir already gone
31 * RT#79348 doesn't support miniperl in installation paths
34 * Fix META_MERGE example
35 * RT#31053 Mention configure_requires in PREREQ_FATAL documentation
36 * RT#14680 Document TEST_FILES usage with 'make test'
37 * RT#21285 Document 'make veryclean'
39 6.69_05 Thu Jul 11 22:10:10 BST 2013
41 * Resolve RT#9452 regression with
42 parse_version() (Victor Efimov)
43 * RT#28632 use LD and OPTIMIZE in recursive Makefile.PL
44 invocations (Niko Tyni)
46 6.69_04 Wed Jul 10 11:48:22 BST 2013
48 * Revert RT#54703 and apply patch from RT#69401 to
49 resolve /cygdrive issues (Reini Urban)
51 6.69_03 Tue Jul 9 22:39:54 BST 2013
53 * RT#61419 Avoid invisible interactive question when
54 rebuilding Makefile (Slaven Rezic)
55 * VERSION also now really handles v-strings correctly.
58 * RT#54703 - Don't hardcode /cygdrive (Jerry Hedden)
61 * Install into site when 5.12 or above
63 6.69_02 Tue Jul 2 13:12:51 BST 2013
65 * [RT#86609] VERSION_FROM now handles v-strings correctly.
66 * VERSION also now handles v-strings correctly.
69 * Updated bundled CPAN::Meta and removed Version::Requirements
71 6.69_01 Thu Jun 20 12:49:45 BST 2013
73 * resolve regression on Win32 introduced in 6.67_01
76 6.68 Fri Jun 14 23:26:11 BST 2013
77 No changes from 6.67_05
79 6.67_05 Thu Jun 13 21:52:46 BST 2013
81 * RT#86007 - Restore meaning for divorced sentence
83 6.67_04 Mon Jun 10 20:18:25 BST 2013
85 * Address RT#85406, where specifying 'meta-spec' in
86 META_[ADD|MERGE] would remove all prereqs (bingos)
88 6.67_03 Wed Jun 5 22:03:28 BST 2013
90 * Document how to specify meta-spec in META_MERGE (bingos)
92 6.67_02 Sun Jun 2 18:27:45 BST 2013
94 * Allow v-prefixed version strings once more (bingos)
95 * Typos fixed (David Steinbrunner)
96 * Resolve test failure with latest CPAN::Meta
98 6.67_01 Thu Apr 25 21:03:58 BST 2013
100 * Change references to makemaker.org in the docs
101 (Reported as RT#83246 by dolmen)
104 * 'core' files are keep files (*.kp) on vos, adjust the
105 'clean' target to account for this (Paul Green)
108 * Increase dmake MAXLINELENGTH to 800000 (RT#77215) as
109 per kmx's recommendations (kmx)
112 * Allow linking of Cygwin libraries (Reini Urban)
114 6.66 Fri Apr 19 17:53:13 BST 2013
115 No changes from 6.65_03
117 6.65_03 Mon Apr 15 13:44:24 BST 2013
119 * Use File::Temp in parse_* tests to resolve race conditions
123 6.65_02 Sun Apr 14 10:56:41 BST 2013
125 * t/xs.t is now running tests against the XS build.
126 (Michael G Schwern) (Leon Timmermans)
129 6.65_01 Tue Mar 19 00:06:17 CET 2013
131 * Improvements perlcritic support. (M. Schwern)
132 * Improvements to dynamic linking for gcc (Tobias Leich)
134 * Change $(PERL_HDRS) from a hard coded list of headers to
135 reading install directory for available header files. Allows
136 us to work with any version of Perl properly.
137 (Yves Orton, Craig A. Berry) [github #47]
140 * Numerous typo fixes. (Ben Bullock)
141 [github #33] [github #34] [github #35]
142 * Various FAQ and doc improvements (M. Schwern, Ivan Bessarabov)
146 * fixes relating to hash ordering (Yves Orton)
147 [github #46] [rt.cpan.org #83441] [rt.perl.org #116857]
148 * fixes to Mksymlists (Ben Bullock, Yves Orton)
149 [github #48] [github #49] [github #51]
152 6.64 Sun Dec 16 18:27:40 PST 2012
154 * Update the home page in the meta file. makemaker.org has been
155 unmaintained for a while.
158 6.63_04 Thu Nov 22 13:18:06 PST 2012
160 * Eliminated the problematic and not very useful PASTHRU test
161 on Windows. A better test will come after stable. [github 41]
163 * Avoid a new regex warning in 5.17.x in t/MM_OS2.t. (Craig A. Berry)
166 * Better ignore files due to non-case-preserving filesystems.
170 6.63_03 Thu Nov 1 19:52:30 PDT 2012
172 * Added TEST_REQUIRES keyword to specify prerequisites only needed
173 for testing. [github 29] (Ricardo Signes)
176 * Update bundled modules: ExtUtils::Install to 1.54, ExtUtils::Manifest
178 * Update CPAN::Meta::YAML to 0.08 for compatibility with older versions
182 * Change 'Note' to 'Warning' when libraries aren't found since people
183 often fail to realise that this is the cause of a build failure.
184 [github 20] (Matt Trout)
187 * Added an early test to check for a common 5.6 bug where 0.01 is
188 incorrectly stringified to 1.e-02. [rt.cpan.org 74095]
191 * Clarified NAME. [rt.cpan.org 73361]
192 * SYNOPSIS is a bit more useful.
195 6.63_02 Tue Nov 1 17:02:40 PDT 2011
197 * Inform BSDPAN (on FreeBSD) to not register modules installed while
198 testing. [rt.cpan.org 70232]
199 * Fix t/echo.t test on Win32. [rt.cpan.org 72097]
200 * Fix t/echo.t test on VMS. (Craig A. Berry)
201 * Fix t/Win32.t to handle the change to init_others(). [rt.cpan.org 72096]
204 * Fix VMS's echo() for the interface changes. (Craig A. Berry)
205 * Fix VMS's dollar sign escaping. (Craig A. Berry)
208 * my::bundle::copy_bundles() will only load File::Copy::Recursive if
209 it needs it, allowing vendors packaging MakeMaker to just delete
211 * Bundling can be overridden by setting the BUILDING_AS_PACKAGE
212 environment variable. This makes life easier for vendor packagers.
213 * Stripped the Windows newlines off Parse::CPAN::Meta to avoid
214 confusing old versions of Module::Signature.
217 * README.packaging explains how to package MakeMaker
218 * bundled/README explains what the bundled directory is about.
221 6.63_01 Sun Oct 23 16:57:24 PDT 2011
223 * Stray $ in the PPD and meta files (for example, from the ABSTRACT)
224 are now escaped. [rt.cpan.org 71847]
226 Possibly incompatible changes
227 * echo() now escapes all dollar signs by default
230 * echo() has an option to allow make variable expansion.
231 * echo() is now passed a hash of options (old style $appending flag
232 still works for compatibility).
233 * quote_literal() now escapes dollar signs, but allows make variables.
234 * quote_literal() has an option to escape make variables.
235 * escape_dollarsigns() to escape dollar signs but allow variables
236 * escape_all_dollarsigns() to escape all dollar signs
239 * The PPD VERSION is now derived from the VERSION variable in the Makefile
240 rather than hard coded.
243 * Updated CPAN::Meta to 2.112621
244 * Updated CPAN::Meta::YAML to 0.004
245 * Updated JSON::PP to 2.27200
248 6.62 Sun Oct 23 16:43:36 PDT 2011
249 No changes from 6.61_01
252 6.61_01 Sat Sep 24 22:16:13 PDT 2011
254 * Liblist::Kid now checks the ActiveState MinGW library path environment
256 * Further fixes to the Win32 quoting rules. Fixes failures on VC8+.
257 [rt.cpan.org #69528] [SHAY]
260 6.59 Fri Aug 5 12:09:00 BST
261 No changes since 6.58_01
264 6.58_01 Wed Aug 3 21:12:00 BST
266 * Corrected the repository location [chorny]
269 * Removed the %INC check from _has_cpan_meta and updated the CPAN::Meta
270 bundled with EUMM to one that doesn't set $VERSION in a begin block
271 so it can't appear to be loaded, thus causing us to mistakenly try
272 and call methods on CPAN::Meta modules - this is due to older versions
273 in site_perl shadowing our installation of other bundled modules.
274 [rt.cpan.org 69465] [rt.cpan.org 69900] [MSTROUT]
277 6.58 Wed Jul 6 14:17:06 PDT 2011
278 No changes since 6.57_11
281 6.57_11 Thu May 19 17:26:31 PDT 2011
283 * Changed CPAN::Meta to accept version objects. [github #16]
284 * Massage bad versions and warn the user about them. [github #15]
285 * Protect against CPAN::Meta dying during metafile validation
289 * Fix prereq.t to work around "local %ENV = %ENV" bug
292 * Liblist::Kid can now recognize long compiler paths
293 (Christian Walde) [github #11]
296 6.57_10 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:36:38 +1000
298 * Relaxed strictures on prerequisite versions. Invalid versions now
299 issue a warning and are set to 0 rather than dying. [github #7]
300 * Upgraded CPAN::Meta to 2.110930 which fixes a glitch in writing
301 MYMETA.yml if your module's version number was 1.4. [github #9]
302 * Convert LICENSE entries which are unknown to CPAN::Meta to
303 "unknown" rather than dying. [github #10]
306 6.57_09 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:13:39 +1100
308 * Make CPAN ignore bundled modules
309 * Accidentally rolled Version::Requirements into the version bundle
310 * Deleted now unused ExtUtils::MakeMaker::YAML
313 6.57_08 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:52:47 +1100
315 * Removed dependency on cc_runtime.h for VMS as well.
318 * Changed how modules are bundled to avoid replacing XS version of
319 Scalar::Util with a pure Perl version [github #4]
322 6.57_07 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:31:31 +1100
324 * Generates META.json and MYMETA.json in addition to
325 META.yml and MYMETA.yml (David Golden)
326 * MYMETA has the runtime requirements made priority over META_*
327 keys to allow generation of a correct META.* into the dist while
328 still generating an accurate MYMETA.* locally (Matt S Trout)
329 * Distributions should not depend on cc_runtime.h from core as it is
330 only needed for B::CC
331 * Now uses CPAN::Meta to generate META files.
334 * MYMETA.yml generation from META.yml actually works (Matt S Trout)
335 * All required META fields are generated, even if they must be filled
336 with "unknown" in place of real data (David Golden)
339 * miniperl.t is no longer run outside of the perl core. Its only relevant
340 to bleadperl and requires no backwards compatibility [rt.cpan.org 61868]
343 * Rebase behaviour was improved (Reini Urban)
344 * Build man pages (Reini Urban)
347 * Spot valid lib files on Win32 when .a and .lib are mixed.
348 (Christian Walde) [github #3]
349 * Extensive testing of ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid for Win32
351 * Implemented proper emulation of DOS escaping rules in ExtUtils::MM_Win32
355 6.57_06 Wed Oct 06 13:49:00 EEST 2010
357 * Work around dmake's limitations on how long a "line" can be.
359 * ActivePerl 1007 can now see gcc. [rt.cpan.org 55752] (Christian Walde)
362 * Fix for AUTHOR and undocumented usage of MM->new() (Alexandr Ciornii)
364 6.57_05 Sat Sep 11 23:24:00 EEST 2010
366 * AUTHOR compatibility code should also be called after CONFIGURE callback
368 6.57_04 Thu Sep 09 23:59:00 EEST 2010
370 * Fix several_authors.t
371 * Upgrade bundled modules: ExtUtils::Manifest 1.58.
373 6.57_03 Thu Sep 09 01:31:00 EEST 2010
377 6.57_02 Wed Sep 08 02:40:00 EEST 2010
379 * Don't do MANIFEST checks in PERL_CORE (Robin Barker)
382 * Accept several values (arrayref) in AUTHOR (Alexandr Ciornii)
383 * Add MYMETA.yml support (Adam Kennedy, Alexandr Ciornii)
384 * NO_MYMETA key to suppress MYMETA.yml generation (Alexandr Ciornii)
386 6.57_01 Tue Aug 24 01:36:20 PDT 2010
388 * parse_abstract() is more robust supporting "Package.pm" and multiple
389 dashes and spaces. [rt.perl.org 74438]
392 * Recognize .so files in AIX. [rt.cpan.org 41360] (Jens Rehsack)
393 * Remove manual image-base generation on Win32/gcc [rt.cpan.org 47138]
395 * Use the bundled versions of our dependencies if they're not installed.
396 * Eliminate use of foreach qw() which will be deprecated in 5.14.
397 [rt.cpan.org 57124] (Zefram)
400 * Guard against old versions of YAML::Tiny that worked differently.
404 6.56 Thu Dec 17 14:02:14 PST 2009
405 * Stable release of 6.55_03
408 6.55_03 Fri Dec 4 23:08:02 PDT 2009
410 * BUILD_REQUIRES will not be used when generating ppd, PRINT_PREREQ and
411 'requires' section of META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii)
414 * Better compatibility with miniperl [rt.cpan.org 48534] (Ilya Zakharevich)
417 * mingw64 support (Sisyphus)
418 * Fixed a typo causing bad Makefiles for Visual C++ users (Steve Hay)
421 * The new "package NAME VERSION" syntax from 5.11 is now supported by
422 parse_version() and thus VERSION_FROM. The first version declaration,
423 package or $VERSION, is used. (David Golden)
426 6.55_02 Wed Aug 5 00:36:36 PDT 2009
428 * PREFIX now applies to relative directories. This is a change since
429 6.20 when they were ignored. Its necessary for relocatable Perls.
432 * Refactoring of "MakeMaker Parameters" section in 6.55_01 broke VMS.
436 6.55_01 Tue Jul 14 15:53:30 PDT 2009
438 * The tests got a bit overzealous and removed the LIB environment variable
439 while is necessary for some compilers to work. [rt.cpan.org 47722]
441 * Another fix for arch_check() on Windows changing how we normalize
442 long and short filenames. [rt.cpan.org 47723] (Jan Dubois)
445 * BUILD_REQUIRES is added, similar to PREREQ_PM but for modules which
446 are necessary to build, but not run, your module. (Alexandr Ciornii)
449 6.54 Tue Jul 7 16:48:22 PDT 2009
451 * Added perl core boilerplate code to a few new tests which were missing
455 6.53_03 Thu Jul 2 14:47:45 PDT 2009
457 * You'd get a warning if you had a PREREQ_PM on a module with no $VERSION
458 like Config (broken in 6.51_01) [rt.cpan.org 47448]
461 * Upgrade the version of Test::More we ship with to 0.88.
462 * Fix MM_Cygwin.t for older Perls missing Cygwin::win_to_posix_path()
464 * Fix miniperl.t for Windows. Our method of shutting off XS didn't
466 * Old versions of version.pm, like what ships with OS X, dent Foo->VERSION
467 causing prereq.t to fail. [rt.cpan.org 47296]
468 * Add missing core test boilerplates
469 [blead e39d780342f3e91579069fdc80eda72bfe639ae7]
472 6.53_02 Sun Jun 7 19:24:56 PDT 2009
474 * Stray use of Shell::Command broke older perls
477 * MakeMaker will now automatically test itself with multiple
478 perl versions before releasing.
481 6.53_01 Sun Jun 7 19:02:20 PDT 2009
483 * blib will now be rebuilt if the Makefile is changed
485 * 6.52 broke the setting of EXTRALIBS, LDLOADLIBS and BSLOADLIBS
486 when $self->{LIBS}[0] is undefined.
487 [rt.cpan.org 46633] (Craig Berry)
490 * Fixed MM_Cygwin.t when the path prefix (ie. cygdrive) has been
491 changed by the user. [rt.cpan.org 46585] (JDHEDDEN)
494 * Removed attempts to compensate for the "bin" logical added
495 by some versions of GNV, Craig says they're futile.
496 Put a warning into the Makefile.PL instead.
497 [rt.cpan.org 46679] (Craig Berry)
498 * Removed the arch_check() special case for VMS.
499 [rt.cpan.org 46678] (Craig Berry)
502 * Restore building the core by not trying to load the Win32
503 module in arch_check() with miniperl.
504 [rt.cpan.org 46667] (Max Maischein)
507 * Forgot to get rid of the tests for bytes and vmsish
508 which were removed in 6.51_01.
509 * Stopped running a Windows specific arch_check.t test
510 on non-Windows. (Craig Berry)
514 6.52 Sat May 30 11:22:04 PDT 2009
516 * Documented CONFIGURE_REQUIRES (Alexandr Ciornii)
517 * Modernized the docs for PREREQ_PM
520 6.51_04 Sun May 24 14:04:11 PDT 2009
522 * All work on INSTALLHTML* has been reverted pending a fix for
526 6.51_03 Sat May 23 22:38:26 PDT 2009
528 * Building *.C files was broken in 6.37. [rt.cpan.org 45557]
529 Thanks to Rajesh Mandalemula for spotting it.
531 * Optional parameter CONFIGURE_REQUIRES was added, to control
532 this section in META.yml (Alexandr Ciornii)
535 6.51_02 Mon Apr 13 21:19:56 PDT 2009
537 * Fix a minor bug with the new PERM_DIR stuff which caused EUI to think
538 PERM_DIR was an install skip file.
539 * A Win32 function call in the last alpha broke Win32 builds.
542 6.51_01 Fri Apr 10 14:30:27 PDT 2009
544 * Module installation will not be stopped by a broken Pod::Man.
545 Man pages will just not be installed.
546 [rt.cpan.org 43546] (Jesse Vincent)
547 * vim swap files, *.swp, will now be ignored by MakeMaker.
548 * Added PERM_DIR to control permissions on directories.
549 [rt.cpan.org 3927] (Rajesh Mandalemula)
552 * Modules in PREREQ_PM are no longer loaded in order to figure out
553 their version. parse_version() is used instead.
555 * PPD files generated with "make ppd" now use the new REQUIRES key
556 rather than the now deprecated DEPENDENCY.
557 [rt.cpan.org 25179] (GAAS)
558 * PPD files no longer contain the deprecated OS tag.
559 * fixin is a bit less restrictive allowing things like
560 #!perl5.8.8 and #!perl-debug [rt.cpan.org 29442]
561 * Remove the unused perm_rw() and perm_rwx() methods.
564 * On 5.10 "make ppd" would generate the wrong ARCHITECTURE saying the
565 version is 5.1 instead of 5.10.
566 * Our pod2man emulation now requires an argument to --perm_rw.
567 [rt.cpan.org 35190] (imacat)
568 * DISTVNAME was documented as a WriteMakefile() param but you'd
569 get a warning if you tried to use it. [rt.cpan.org 43217]
570 * Better support for parallel make installs.
571 [rt.cpan.org 32758] (Brendan O'Dea)
572 * parse_version() will now skip uses of $VERSION in conditions
573 [rt.cpan.org 9452] (jc@unser.net)
574 * The architecture mismatch warning could show up on Win32 due
575 to long vs short filenames being used to compare.
576 [rt.cpan.org 33532] (DAGOLDEN)
577 * maybe_command() will recognize Windows executables in
578 /cygdrive on Cygwin [rt.cpan.org 16375] (PJF)
579 * parse_version() will now look for the first use of $VERSION
580 that results in $VERSION being set.
583 * basic.t will not leave a "bin" environment variable defined on VMS.
584 [rt.cpan.org 42150] (John E. Malmberg)
585 * Made the tests work ok on systems whose makes assume that files which
586 have the same mod time are out of date. This is often the case for
587 the tests which generate files and run make rapidly.
588 [rt.cpan.org 29955] (Ken Hirsch)
589 * skip test numbers were wrong on VMS in t/basic.t
590 [rt.cpan.org 43511] (John E. Malmberg)
593 * Removed a few hard coded uses of the "false" command.
597 * Fixed a few calls to catfile() that should be catdir().
599 * Override catdir() and catfile() to expand macros. This is normally done
600 inside File::Spec::VMS but is really a MakeMaker-only thing.
604 * Remove ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes and vmsish which are unused and
605 seem to never have been used.
606 * Repository now on github.
609 6.50 Sun Mar 22 12:28:06 PDT 2009
611 * Remove the special checks for compilers that need a "manifest". Instead,
612 the code will just be a no-op if there's no manifest. Or something.
613 I dunno, I'm hoping Jan and Steve know what they're doing.
617 6.49_01 Thu Feb 19 17:06:36 PST 2009
619 * Recognize "Haiku", a resurrection of BeOS.
622 - META.yml now includes ExtUtils::MakeMaker in build_requires by
626 - ExtUtils::Install 1.51 changed its output breaking some tests that
627 were looking for /^Writing/ [rt.cpan.org 42927]
630 - Upgrade bundled modules: ExtUtils::Install 1.52, ExtUtils::Command
631 1.16, ExtUtils::Manifest 1.56.
634 - The MakeMaker repository moved slightly. Changed the metadata to
635 reflect this. [rt.cpan.org 41571]
638 6.48 Mon Oct 20 11:18:13 PDT 2008
640 * Protect against stray environment variables effecting the tests.
644 6.47_02 Thu Oct 16 16:14:20 PDT 2008
646 * MIN_PERL_VERSION test had some goofs on VMS. [thanks Craig Berry]
649 6.47_01 Tue Oct 14 12:38:05 EDT 2008
651 * Added optional parameter MIN_PERL_VERSION, to define minimal
652 required perl version for dependency checks and to pass on to
653 META.yml and ppd files. [rt.cpan.org 28374]
654 Thanks to David Golden, Alexandr Ciornii (chorny) and Martin Becker
657 * Guard against a path to Perl with a space in it.
658 From Max Maischein. [bleadperl@32905]
661 - Small fix for VOS from Paul Green [bleadperl@33259]
664 * $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Revision, $ExtUtils::MM_Unix::Revision and
665 $ExtUtils::MM_VMS::Revision are all now based on $VERSION. You
666 shouldn't be using them for anything anyway.
669 6.46 Sat Sep 27 17:34:03 EDT 2008
671 - Fix META_MERGE for more than one level of hashes. [rt.cpan.org 39348]
674 6.45_02 Sun Sep 7 13:59:14 PDT 2008
676 - Updated bundled ExtUtils::Command to 1.14, ExtUtils::Install to
677 1.50 and ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.54
680 - t/writemakefile_args.t had the wrong skip amount causing failures
681 when run without version.pm (mostly 5.6 users)
684 6.45_01 Sat Sep 6 03:19:03 PDT 2008
686 * META_ADD and META_MERGE have been added to manipulate the META.yml.
687 Thanks to Adriano Ferreira. [rt.cpan.org 21282]
688 - META.yml now includes configure_requires ExtUtils::MakeMaker by
689 default. [rt.cpan.org 32337]
690 - META.yml now excludes t/ and inc/ from indexing by default.
691 - META.yml license is now "unknown" instead of undef if a LICENSE is not
693 - META.yml now conforms to version 1.4 of the spec.
696 - Make @MM_Sections and @Overridable global again. It's an undocumented
697 but used way to manipulate MakeMaker behavior. [rt.cpan.org 36047]
700 * Changed the name/dmake test in MM_Win32.pm to use regexs to that
701 they are able to handle Perl on a Stick absolute paths.
704 6.44 Thu Feb 28 16:06:04 PST 2008
706 * Updated bundled ExtUtils::Install to 1.45 which should fix some
707 Cygwin issues. [rt.cpan.org 33291]
710 6.43_01 Tue Jan 1 16:06:47 PST 2008
712 * Change the "is this really a Perl core library directory" checks to
713 look for strict instead of Exporter. Now that Exporter is on CPAN
714 it can wind up in site_perl.
715 * split_command() will now set aside a little more space for macro
716 expansion. This should help on systems with cramped command line
717 lengths. Specifically, Pugs on Win32. [rt.cpan.org 20145]
720 * MakeMaker would not install if the installed MakeMaker was too old,
721 like on 5.6.1. The installation process was still using the
722 installed MakeMaker in a few places. This has been fixed.
726 * "make dist" will no longer bundle up resource fork files (._foo).
730 * The documentation of VERSION_FROM was recommending vstrings (1.2.3)
731 which have never worked right.
732 * The documentation for the accepted values of LICENSE moved to
733 Module::Build::API. [rt.cpan.org 32020]
736 * The compilation test was testing the installed modules, not the
737 about-to-be-installed.
738 * xs.t would fail if ExtUtils::CBuilder was not installed.
741 * Cleanups brought to you by no more 5.5 compatibility!
742 * MakeMaker is now perlcritic clean at severity level 5... except
743 the really silly ones.
745 * Added some resources to the META.yml
747 6.42 Fri Dec 7 17:00:14 PST 2007
749 - 6.33 moved PREREQ_FATAL to happen after CONFIGURE. This meant if
750 your CONFIGURE use a prereq it would fail and no PREREQ_FATAL
751 message would be displayed.
752 - Put the "nicetext" functionality back, VMS needs it to deal with
753 other people's custom make. But rename it to the more
754 accurate maketext_filter(), test it and fix a bug where it would
755 stop processing if it saw a macro declaration.
757 6.40 Thu Dec 6 03:00:47 PST 2007
759 - Remove the dubious nicetext() Makefile formatting hack to account for
760 a lack of space between the target and colon needed on VMS. This
761 interfered with META.yml creation on VMS and possibly other output.
762 - Fix the remaining targets which don't have a space between the target
765 6.38 Wed Nov 28 16:01:12 PST 2007
766 Releasing 6.37_03 as 6.38.
768 6.37_03 Mon Nov 26 14:15:34 PST 2007
770 - parse_version.t had wrong test count when version.pm isn't installed.
771 - Fixed some warnings in the XS module we're using for testing.
772 - "our $VERSION" test in parse_version.t was never running
773 - Quoting uses of 1.2.3 style versions in parse_version.t to protect
777 - Moved the minimum required version up to 5.6.0.
779 6.37_02 Sun Nov 25 23:33:14 PST 2007
781 - Added a test for a basic XS build.
784 - A refactoring in 6.37_01 broke XS compilation.
786 6.37_01 Sun Nov 25 17:05:53 PST 2007
788 - Upgraded the META.yml to version 1.3 of the spec (which really
789 doesn't change anything). Thanks bdfoy.
790 - MakeMaker now always includes the required 'author' field in
791 the META.yml even if it's undef to comply with the META.yml spec.
792 - Updated ExtUtils-Install to latest version (1.44)
793 - Unified the version numbers of all modules.
796 - cd() test on VMS used non-native paths. [bleadperl 31534]
797 - Removed uses of "no_plan" in tests to remain compatible with
798 old versions of Test::Harness.
799 - writemakefile_args.t had the wrong test count if version.pm isn't
803 - $VERSION detection code would be confused by "sub version"
805 - LINKTYPE=static will now be propagated to child builds.
809 - Add "dragonfly" to the list of BSDish operating systems
810 - BSD detection code would not pick up bsdos or internix
811 - Fix detection of shared libperl on NetBSD [bleadperl 31526]
814 6.36 Tue Jul 3 01:06:40 PDT 2007
816 - version.pm prior to 0.7203 caused Foo->VERSION to reformat
817 $Foo::VERSION. This caused prereq.t to fail.
819 6.35 Sun Jul 1 20:53:38 PDT 2007
821 * MakeMaker will now try to "use version" before parsing $VERSION.
822 This allows "$VERSION = qv(1.2.3)" to work.
825 - writemakefile_args.t now works with older versions of version.pm
827 6.34 Sat Jun 30 11:06:54 CDT 2007
829 - Accidentally hard coded the version of strict.pm [rt.cpan.org 27838]
831 6.33 Fri Jun 29 17:15:34 CDT 2007
833 * VERSION now accepts version objects without warning.
837 - Properly not installing MANIFEST.SKIP when ExtUtils::Manifest is not
838 being installed. [rt.cpan.org 21318]
839 - fixin() no longer clobbers $/ [rt.cpan.org 26234]
840 - Fixed bug finding cross-compiled perls [bleadperl 31404]
841 - Looking up to 8 levels up to find uninstalled perls
843 * A test failure in a sub-project would not cause "make test" to
844 fail. [rt.cpan.org 27804]
847 - Embed manifest files in EXEs and DLLs when building with VC++ 8.x
848 [bleadperl #29266] [rt.cpan.org 26208]
849 - Improved the subdir command code so DIR can do more than one level
850 down. [rt.cpan.org 25180]
851 - Fix static builds on Win32 by using -DPERLDLL [bleadperl 31229]
854 - Use linker flags rather than compiler flags to determine if the
855 perl sharable image was linked debug. This keeps OPTIMIZE from
856 confusing things. [rt.cpan.org 25268]
857 - Accidental use of $\ in a regex. [bleadperl 30521]
860 - If calling perl causes MakeMaker to emit warnings, then it
861 cannot find the location of its binary. [rt.cpan.org 23178]
864 - Typo fixes. $(TOUNIX) -> $(TO_UNIX). [rt.cpan.org 23495]
865 - The example for setting $VERSION from $Revision$ in SVN was
866 incorrect. (Thanks to ROBERTMAY@cpan.org) [rt.cpan.org 26995]
867 - Document what's wrong with PREFIX and what to use instead.
869 - Improve the PREREQ_FATAL docs to make it really clear that you
870 do NOT want to use this!
873 - Provide information during the install about whether we're using the
874 installed or provided dependency (ie. ExtUtils::Command).
875 - Updated included versions of ExtUtils::Manifest and Command.
876 - Add .bak and .old to veryclean [rt.cpan.org 21284]
877 - Improved the PREREQ_FATAL message.
879 6.32 Wed Feb 21 07:59:57 PST 2007
881 - WriteEmptyMakefile() is now exportable upon request.
884 - Set binmode() when writing to files in Command.t for operating
885 systems which need that sort of thing. [bleadperl #29578]
886 - Fixed a minor duplication in manifypod_target(). [rt.cpan.org 22149]
889 - The build_man.t test would fail if your Perl is configured to not
890 generate man pages ($Config{installman3dir} is set to none).
893 - Made the home dir install examples a little more friendly to non-Unix
897 - miniperl no longer has the Win32 functions.
898 - Turn on "use strict" where it was missing.
900 6.31 Mon Oct 9 16:54:47 PDT 2006
901 - Update our META.yml to version 1.2 of the spec.
902 * Update the SEE ALSO to mention Module::Build, Module::Install,
903 ExtUtils::ModuleMaker and Module::Starter.
904 - Fix ARCHITECTURE tag in PPD generation for 5.8 (patch taken from
905 ActiveState 819). [rt.cpan.org 20566]
906 * Bring ExtUtils::Manifest up to 1.48
908 6.30_04 Mon Sep 11 16:14:06 EDT 2006
909 - EXTRA_META has been undocumented as I don't like the way the
910 interface works but I don't want to hold up 6.31. It will be
911 replaced with something better next version.
912 - Added explaination of distclean behavior and instructions on how to
913 blow away anything not in the MANIFEST to the FAQ.
914 * 6.30_01 broke overrides of PM. MakeMaker would add to a user
915 suplied PM rather than simply accepting it.
916 * Document INSTALL_BASE.
917 * Added "How do I install a module into my home directory?" to the FAQ
918 * Added "How do I get MakeMaker and Module::Build to install to the
920 - Moving ExtUtils::Mksymlists and ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap back into
921 lib/ because no independent distribution has taken them over.
923 6.30_03 Fri Sep 1 17:03:11 EDT 2006
924 - Minor fix to Command.t for Win32.
926 6.30_02 Fri Sep 1 15:03:55 EDT 2006
927 - Updated to ExtUtils::Install 1.41
928 * Won't scan for and build man pages when MAN3PODS is deliberately set
930 - Minor VMS fixes. [bleadperl@26813]
931 - VMS->one_liner must quote "--" argument. [bleadperl@27613]
932 * Split INSTALLSCRIPT into INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITESCRIPT and
933 INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT so it now honors INSTALLDIRS. [bleadperl@26536]
934 - Minor fix to work with Pod::man 2.04. [bleadperl@26457]
935 - $Revision was broken.
936 - Updated our internal version of Test::More to catch a few warnings.
937 - ExtUtils::Command::test_f() test was broken.
938 - Clarified that test_f() exits.
940 6.30_01 Tue Aug 16 23:53:27 PDT 2005
941 * Fixed compiling modules using an uninstalled Perl on Win32 by using
942 the proper perl header location for Windows (which is different from
943 Unix). Looks like a very old bug. [bugs.perl.org 36128]
944 - $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Revision accidentally left in a stray "Revision".
945 [thanks pdx.pm for noticing this]
946 - Fixed the $VERSION = $Revision$ example in the MakeMaker docs and the
947 FAQ. [thanks again, pdx.pm]
948 - Elaborated on the differences between CVS, SVN and others when using
949 $Revision$ based $VERSIONs.
950 * ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Manifest,
951 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists and ExtUtils::Packlist
952 are all now considered to be separate distributions. To avoid a
953 circular dependency, MakeMaker distributes its own versions but CPAN
954 should not index them and they will not overwrite a newer, installed
956 * Added EXTRA_META option to allow module authors to append extra
957 text to the generated META.yml.
958 * Added a LICENSE field mirroring Module::Build's license.
959 * META.yml support updated to version 1.1. All required fields
960 now generated. (NOTE: 1.1 isn't yet complete but we're going with
961 it anyway. MakeMaker uses "author" instead of "authored_by" as its
962 expected the former will be used in 1.1 final).
963 * Non-conforming version_from and installdirs META.yml fields removed.
964 * META.yml distribution_type field now intelligent enough to guess at
965 the type rather than hard code 'module'.
966 * INSTALLBASE changed to INSTALL_BASE to match Module::Build.
967 * Added a MAKE parameter for Windows users to say if they're using
970 6.30 Fri May 20 16:05:38 PDT 2005
971 * PL_FILES behavior tweak again to restore old behavior. Sometimes its
972 supposed to run before pm_to_blib, sometimes after.
973 - Some tests shipped with 'no_plan' which will break on older
976 6.29 Thu May 19 14:15:21 PDT 2005
977 * The behavior of PL_FILES is restored to its pre-6.26 behavior as several
978 CPAN modules depend on this. PL programs run via PL_FILES have
979 INST_LIB and INST_ARCH in their @INC and so can load any just built
981 - Now honors PERL_CORE environment variable.
982 - Testing to ensure FIRST_MAKEFILE is honored.
984 6.28 Tue Apr 12 16:17:07 PDT 2005
985 - Fix realclean so it cleans up files installed from ext/ in the core
986 - Fix dir_target() so it doesn't warn should any of the INST_* paths
987 be the same (as with the ext/ modules in the core)
988 - Fix MANIFEST.SKIP so it skips not just _darcs/ but everything inside
989 it and any which happen to be in subdirs.
990 - MM_AIX forgot to import neatvalue() from E::MakeMaker.
992 - Fixed a minor C<<>> POD nit (Scott Lanning)
994 6.27 Mon Apr 4 16:36:14 PDT 2005
995 * Added _darcs to the list of revision control administrative
996 directories skipped both in libscan and in MANIFEST.SKIP.
998 6.26_01 Mon Mar 28 21:34:39 PST 2005
999 * PL_FILES was broken in the last release. The .PL files were not being
1000 passed the file they were to generate.
1001 * How PL_FILES runs the programs and what it does with the value is
1003 * The default behavior of PL_FILES is now documented.
1005 6.26 Mon Mar 21 20:36:22 PST 2005
1007 6.25_12 Fri Mar 18 16:15:35 PST 2005
1008 - Use the generic dmake search.cpan.org URL in the README so the newest
1010 - Fixed pm_to_blib trouble on VMS introduced in 6.25_10.
1012 6.25_11 Tue Mar 15 02:00:20 PST 2005
1013 - Fixed minor parent class dependency loop in ExtUtils::MM_Any.
1014 - Fixed a circular dependency on processed PL files introduced as part
1015 of RT 6460 in 6.25_02.
1017 6.25_10 Sun Mar 13 16:14:04 PST 2005
1018 - pm_to_blib.ts is gone, back to pm_to_blib (except on VMS). I
1019 couldn't make it work and still retain backwards compatibility.
1020 This fixes the recompilation problems that plagued _09 and various
1021 previous alpha releases.
1023 6.25_09 Sat Mar 12 10:10:34 PST 2005
1024 - Stubbing out PASTHRU on VMS. $(MMSQUALIFIERS) should do the equivalent
1026 - Added test to check for the existence of a compiler so XS tests are
1029 6.25_08 Tue Feb 8 09:04:36 EST 2005
1030 - Fixing xsubpp on VMS. Had a foo/bar path in it.
1031 - Turning XSUBPP into a runable command by the addition of PERLRUN
1032 made it unusable as a dependency. Added XSUBPPRUN for that and left
1034 - Removed DESTDIR from PASTHRU as install is not recursive and it can
1035 make commands too long on VMS.
1036 - Older versions of MMS cannot handle directory targets at all. Using
1037 .exists files everywhere.
1038 - Restore missing *.Opt clean on VMS.
1039 - Fix .exists files accidentally getting caught in static builds.
1040 - Older versions of MMS cannot handle directory targets at all.
1041 - Add Interix support (bleadperl@33892)
1042 - distsign target changed to distsignature to avoid clash with
1045 6.25_07 Fri Dec 31 03:47:20 EST 2004
1046 - perllocal on VMS was inserting executables twice.
1047 - No longer using $(IGNORE) macro. Turns out MMS/K was not honoring
1048 it. Using "-$(NOECHO) command" which seems to make everybody happy.
1049 - Executables with no extension weren't getting installed on VMS due to
1050 a bug in rename(). Broken sometime in this series of alphas.
1052 6.25_06 Sun Dec 26 17:21:37 EST 2004
1053 - Forgot to define BOOTDEP macro.
1054 - .exists files are back. Directories cannot be used directly as
1055 targets as their mod time changes too frequently.
1056 * Added INSTALLBASE as an alternative to PREFIX but haven't documented
1057 it yet. I'll do that next release.
1059 6.25_05 Wed Dec 22 07:59:02 EST 2004
1060 - One of the 6.25 alphas broke BSD make. It doesn't like "- @ command".
1061 Fixed by adding an $(IGNORE) macro.
1062 - 6.25 alphas caused a Makefile to be added to the dist. Fixed.
1063 - The new cd() code needed to be dependent on dmake or nmake for
1064 Windows. Not Win9x vs WinNT/XP.
1066 6.25_04 Tue Dec 21 00:53:06 EST 2004
1067 - 6.25_03 was always rebuilding XS modules.
1069 6.25_03 Mon Dec 20 23:04:22 EST 2004
1070 - dir_target() is back. Now each directory to be created has its own
1071 target like before, but no more .exists or blibdirs.ts files. This
1072 ensures that each blib directory is created as necessary and fixes
1073 things like SVN's perl bindings.
1075 6.25_02 Mon Dec 20 03:31:49 EST 2004
1076 - Set PM_FILTER as late as possible so it can see all the earlier
1077 macro definitions. Necessary for challenged make implementations
1078 like nmake. Should fix Mail::SpamAssassin installs on Win32.
1080 - clean and realclean are now more careful about accidentally deleting
1081 directories instead of files. [rt.cpan.org 6851]
1082 - small fix for parallel builds, make sure pm_to_blib has run before
1083 we try to use stuff in blib. [rt.cpan.org 6460]
1084 - MAKEFILE=foo appears to have been broken for recursive builds and
1085 several other things. I think this was broken by 6.18.
1087 6.25_01 Fri Dec 17 21:29:04 EST 2004
1088 * *.bak added to the default MANIFEST.SKIP.
1089 * META.yml will no longer be generated in the build directory. It will
1090 only appear in the distdir. This should make it easier on developers,
1091 they don't have to worry about checking the file in all the time.
1092 * Similarly, the SIGNATURE file will not be updated in the build
1093 directory. It will only be generated in the distdir.
1094 - A bunch of redundant Win9x and VMS code removed.
1095 - 'make test' on Windows no longer pre-expands its list of test files.
1096 This caused problems on large distributions like bioperl. Thanks to
1097 Tim Bunce for suggesting the obvious fix.
1099 6.25 Wed Dec 15 06:59:46 EST 2004
1100 - Build.PL was being considered like Module_pm.PL. Build.PL is now
1101 ignored. [radek@karnet.pl] [rt.cpan.org 8809]
1102 - Devel::Cover cover_db/ directory now ignored by MANIFEST.SKIP
1104 6.24_01 Thu Dec 9 00:44:48 EST 2004
1105 - Docs encouraged possibly insecure use of /tmp [CAN-2004-0976 via Debian]
1106 - Remove empty rpath from .so files [bleadperl@23183]
1107 - At long last the core man page title has its apostrophe.
1108 - BeOS tests fixed [Ingo Weinhold] [perlbug #32717]
1109 - Putting a pm_to_blib target back (alias of pm_to_blib.ts) in case
1110 anyone was depending on it being there (mod_perl was).
1112 6.24 Tue Nov 30 15:35:13 EST 2004
1113 - dir_target() was accidentally named dir_targets() causing problems
1114 installing some Tk modules.
1116 6.23 Fri Nov 26 16:01:50 EST 2004
1117 - MM_MacOS lost its $VERSION causing some CPAN indexing problems. Enough
1118 people noticed this to warrant a quick release.
1120 6.22 Tue Nov 23 22:22:22 EST 2004
1121 - Minor glitch in Command.t test on Win32 [thanks Steve Hay]
1122 * Fixed MANIFEST.SKIP so it avoids all the new *.ts files.
1123 - Don't spuriously define pasthru arguments
1125 6.21_03 Sat Apr 3 2004
1126 - pm_to_blib and blibdirs stamp files now pm_to_blib.ts and blibdirs.ts
1127 everywhere because some filesystems insist you have a dot in the
1128 filename. This eliminates a bunch of special case code.
1129 - Minor potential glitch in the version check logic.
1130 - Making Makefile rebuild logic more resistant to inconsequential
1131 errors when cleaning up things that are going to be rebuilt anyway.
1132 - Adding SCCS to the list of directories in MANIFEST.SKIP.
1133 * Fixing blibdirs so it doesn't rebuild every make run.
1134 * Using a more conservative MAX_EXEC_LEN for Win98 to allow building
1135 large modules like Encode. [Greg Matheson]
1136 * test target mangled by dmake. Doesn't seem to like q{}.
1138 - instmodsh now using Archive::Tar to create archives if available.
1140 - instmodsh now using more portable tar flags to create archives.
1142 - Added FAQ entry for "How do I use a module without installing it?"
1143 and "How do I keep from installing man pages?" [Joe Cromie]
1144 - Fixed finding the default MANIFEST.SKIP if its on a different volume
1146 - When building Perl, we had a chance of picking up the old installed
1147 xsubpp from @INC [Andreas Koenig]
1148 - makeaperl() now a bit more intellegent about ignoring perl libraries
1149 not called libperl. [Ilya Zakharevich bleadperl@22032]
1150 * MacOS Classic (MacPerl) is no longer supported. Please use
1151 Module::Build instead.
1152 * Restored pm_to_blib.ts so pm_to_blib generation will be quiessent on
1154 - For simplicity, dir_target() is now a no-op. Should not effect any
1156 - Converted utility commands from using $(PERLRUN) to $(ABSPERLRUN).
1157 This allows distclean to work with SDBM_File. [rt 5616]
1158 - realclean was using "rm -f" instead of "rm -rf" meaning directories
1159 wouldn't be properly cleaned. Caused by bleadperl@7952. [rt 5208]
1160 - fixpath() could undo wraplist() on VMS [rt 4955]
1161 - ensure ExtUtils::Command::rm_f deletes all versions of a file on VMS
1163 - hint.t generating improperly named hint files on OS's where $^O
1164 contains a '.'. They should be converted to underscores. Test
1165 mistake, not a bug. [rt 5365]
1166 - Fixed ExtUtils::Command::chmod() so it will work on directories on
1168 - parse_version.t was using no_plan causing trouble on older T::Hs.
1171 6.21 Tue Nov 11 00:12:56 PST 2003
1172 - NetBSD was looking in INSTALLARCHLIB/CORE for libperl instead of
1173 PERL_ARCHLIB/CORE. Would cause problems if INSTALLARCHLIB was changed
1174 (ie. LIB or PREFIX used). [Jochen Eisinger]
1175 - Turns out a handful of modules use dir_target(). Restored a version
1176 for backwards compatibility.
1177 - Moved blibdirs target from top_targets() to its own section. Lots of
1178 modules rewrite top_targets() so blibdirs wouldn't be written.
1180 6.20 Thu Nov 6 02:25:58 PST 2003
1181 - Fixing dos2unix on Cygwin. In-place editing doesn't work 100% so we
1182 take a more conservative approach.
1183 - Small postamble.t test temp file cleanup fix for Cygwin and Windows.
1184 - Small Command.t test fix for 5.5.3. No real bug [rt 4290]
1185 - Small Liblist fix for Cygwin and import libraries [Gerrit P. Haase]
1186 - metafile error message slightly mangled. Bare $! mistake confusing
1187 nmake [rt 4285 4301]
1189 6.19 Mon Nov 3 22:53:56 PST 2003
1190 - Removed 00setup_dummy.t and zz_cleanup_dummy.t. Tests now setup and
1191 teardown the dummy modules as needed.
1192 - Little test glitch on systems without $Config{usevendorprefix} set
1193 - INSTALL(SITE|VENDOR)MAN*DIR now fall back to $(INSTALLMAN*DIR)
1194 instead of copying its value. This lets "perl Makefile.PL
1195 INSTALLMAN1DIR=/some/man/man1" work like expected.
1197 6.18 Mon Nov 3 20:09:51 PST 2003
1198 - parse_version() was blowing over $_ (Ilya Zakharevich)
1199 - 5.6.2 has the same Cygwin shared lib name fix as 5.7.0. (Gerrit Haase)
1200 * When $Config{install(site|vendor)man*dir} aren't set it will now
1201 fall back to $Config{installman*dir}. Similar for
1202 $Config{install(site|vendor)bin}. This preserves behavior for older
1204 * Eliminated the dependency on perl.h for pure-perl builds.
1205 * Eliminated .exists files. Added blibdirs target using MKPATH instead.
1206 - Removed now unused dir_target() method.
1207 - Added a little documentation to instmodsh.
1208 * Made sure PREFIX always has something in it. Module authors like to use
1209 it when extending MakeMaker. Currently using one of
1210 PERL/SITE/VENDORPREFIX based on the value of INSTALLDIRS.
1211 * Added SIGN to generate module signatures with cpansign (Autrijus Tang)
1212 - Slight tweaks to MAKEFILE_OLD and MAKE_APERL_FILE restoring a mistake
1213 made around 6.06 to fix static builds on OS/2
1214 - Added ExtUtils::Command::dos2unix()
1215 * manicopy() would make the copied files read-only if 'cp' was used.
1216 * Fixed prereq check for modules which are also keywords like if.pm and
1217 open.pm (Autrijus Tang)
1218 - Made ExtUtils::Command mv and cp return whether or not they succeeded.
1219 * metafile_addtomanifest now mentions what its doing.
1220 * metafile will not die if it can't write to META.yml, just emit a
1221 warning. This lets 'make dist' continue with a read-only META.yml
1222 - Small fix to identify UWIN on NT (Randy Sims)
1223 * metafile will not touch the META.yml if it does not need to be changed
1224 (Thanks to Tim Bunce for this idea)
1225 * Fixed 'make uninstall' which looks like its been broken since last
1226 November and nobody noticed.
1227 - Fixing minor bug in VMS prefixification logic when PREFIX was not set
1229 - Fixing potential bug in prefixification for relative directories
1230 * Documented UNINST=1
1232 6.17 Sun Sep 14 20:52:45 PDT 2003
1233 - Fixing LD so it can be set properly on Win32. (Orton Yves)
1234 * Fixing the init_PERL() "tack $Config{exe_ext} onto $^X" logic so
1235 it works on VMS allowing $^X to be found.
1236 * Fixing make install UNINST=1 on Windows so it can search PERL5LIB
1238 - Fixing "could not open MANIFEST" test for OS/2 (and probably others)
1239 where a read-only file cannot be deleted.
1240 - Hacking around the fact that when built for debugging, VMS creates
1242 - Eliminating the never implemented "help" argument.
1244 6.16 Mon Aug 18 01:39:51 PDT 2003
1245 * Fixing the max exec length for Windows to account for old
1246 versions of nmake (the one you can download for free from MS).
1247 - Hack to normalize //foo//bar paths in ExtUtils::Installed.
1249 * Adding Module::Build utility files to MANIFEST.SKIP
1250 - PREREQ_PRINT is supposed to exit after dumping. (Wolfgang Friebel
1252 - maniadd() was trying to open the MANIFEST even if it didn't need to
1253 causing unnecessary errors for read-only MANIFESTs (rt.cpan.org 3180)
1255 6.15 Sun Aug 3 16:41:05 PDT 2003
1256 - Make FIXIN on Win32 use the new pl2bat rather than an already
1257 installed one when building the core (Mattia Barbon)
1259 6.14 Sun Aug 3 16:23:27 PDT 2003
1260 - Adding a reference to the Module::Build META.yml spec in the META.yml
1261 itself and the metafile documentation.
1262 - Removed Begin/End comments from manifypods that were getting in the
1263 way of users adding code to the manifypods target.
1264 - Putting a POD2MAN macro back as an alias to POD2MAN_EXE and using
1265 it instead of POD2MAN. This allows people to generate their own man
1266 installation targets in a backwards compatible way.
1267 * Adding reference to the Module::Build META file spec in the docs.
1269 6.13 Thu Jul 31 16:48:01 PDT 2003
1270 - Generated META.yml now has the prereqs in sorted order (Andy Lester)
1271 - Arguments to child Makefile.PLs were still having .. prepended. This
1272 was exposed by the earlier fix of rt.perl.org 4345.
1273 - extralibs.ld (for static builds) wasn't being cleaned up.
1275 6.12 Tue Jul 29 22:19:38 PDT 2003
1276 - Should any of your prefixes be /, MakeMaker might lose this and
1277 prepend your prefix as "prefixyour/directory" rather than
1278 "prefix/your/directory" (Ed Moy bleadperl 20283)
1279 - Reversing "realclean was duplicating work already done by clean"
1280 (CVS 1.124 MM_Unix.pm). Turns out it wasn't a duplication and this
1281 was causing INST_* files to be left behind if your INST_LIB wasn't
1282 blib/* as in the perl core. realclean now removes the files copied
1284 - Eliminating xsubpp_version(). No longer relevant. It was checking
1285 for a feature added to xsubpp before 5.003_07 and doing it in a
1288 6.11 Thu Jul 24 01:24:37 PDT 2003
1289 - Small grammatical doc touch up by Sean Burke
1290 - Making basic.t clean up better after itself so it can be run
1291 twice without setting up and cleaning up Big-Dummy again.
1292 * Noting where to find make in the README
1293 * Noting that MakeMaker does not produce a GNU make compatible Makefile
1296 6.10_08 Mon Jul 21 18:17:06 PDT 2003
1297 * $Config{installvendorman*dir} was being ignored and our default
1298 always used. [rt.cpan.org #2949]
1299 * Setting NORECURS to true was still resulting in a Makefile which
1300 tried to recurse into subdirectories which contained a Makefile.PL
1301 (it simply wouldn't have run them to generate Makefile's).
1302 This appears to be a rather old bug.
1304 * [rt.perl.org #4345] Arguments passed to WriteMakefile() would get
1305 stopped upon by $self->{PARENT} in recursive builds in the process
1306 of prepending a .. onto it.
1307 - Command.t now using its own temp directory when testing
1308 expand_wildcards() so no stray files confuse it.
1309 * No longer warning about 'postamble' attribute.
1310 - Added installvars() to list INSTALL* variables so we don't keep
1311 repeating the list all over the code.
1312 - Added init_DEST() to create DESTINSTALL* variables for installing
1314 * DESTDIR + PREFIX now does not duplicate DESTDIR. [Redhat #91892
1315 and part of rt.cpan.org #2954]
1316 * DESTDIR is now not directly prepended to the INSTALL* variables.
1317 installation targets now use DESTINSTALL* instead. This prevents
1318 the DESTDIR from showing up in places it shouldn't like perllocal.pod.
1319 DESTDIR is still appearing in .packlist (bug). [rt.cpan.org #2954]
1320 - MM_VMS->prefixify() wasn't honoring the %Config_Override causing
1321 some MakeMaker generated config variables to be ignored.
1322 - MM_VMS->prefixify() was only VMSifying part of its filepaths causing
1323 internal comparisions to get confused and think it had to prefixify
1326 6.10_07 Sat Jul 5 16:12:52 PDT 2003
1327 * Fixing location of perllocal.pod so its always in INSTALLARCHLIB
1328 instead of one for each perl, site and vendor.
1329 - Sun's make treats escaped newlines oddly. Switching oneliner() back
1330 to using multiple -e's.
1331 * Bug in libscan() meant that any .pm containing RCS or CVS or SCCS
1332 in its name (for example, RCS.pm) would be skipped.
1333 - Command.t was getting confused in the core because it was reading
1334 files from the core t/ directory, not MakeMaker's t/ directry.
1335 - MM_OS2 PERL_ARCHIVE_AFTER test wrong for a.out systems (Ilya)
1336 - Fixing perllocal.pod and XS installation on VMS. An extraneous
1337 newline was introduced when changing the install macros over to
1339 - Added $(ECHO_N) macro to emulate 'echo -n'
1341 6.10_06 Sat Jun 7 00:55:29 PDT 2003
1342 - Whoops, Liblist.t busted on VMS after I turned strict on in
1343 ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid. Merely a test bug, not a real bug.
1344 - Fixed metafile_addtomanifest failure so the proper error shows.
1345 - Fixed metafile_addtomanifest failure diagnostic leaking out during
1346 the basic.t test on Windows.
1348 6.10_05 Fri Jun 6 18:15:30 PDT 2003
1349 * Documenting META.yml, NO_META
1350 * Documenting the fact that distdir will auto generate META.yml and
1351 alter your manifest.
1352 * Adding META.yml autogeneration to the FAQ
1353 - Recognizing comments with leading whitespace in MANIFESTs better.
1354 - Small ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid problem on VMS (Craig Berry)
1355 * Fixed "make install UNINST=1". Appears to have been broken somewhere
1357 - Documented the fourth argument to ExtUtils::Install::install()
1358 - install() will now honor a PERL5LIB change between ExtUtils::Install
1359 loading and install() running when uninstalling shadows.
1360 - META.yml generation deals gracefully when the MANIFEST is read-only
1361 (Slaven rt.cpan.org 2723)
1362 - Fixing tests on limited dir depth VMS systems by moving the
1363 dummy-install dir one level up (Craig Berry rt.cpan.org 2747)
1365 6.10_04 Fri May 23 01:13:04 PDT 2003
1366 - Working around BSD threaading bug in version check. [from bleadperl]
1367 - Added the Makefile to the dist dependencies. (Slaven Rezic)
1368 - Reversing the find_perl() version check failure warning introced in
1369 6.10_03. Too talkative, warned when nothing was wrong.
1370 * Fixing META.yml auto-addition when there's no newline at the end
1371 of the MANIFEST [rt.cpan.org 2444]
1372 * Making it a bit more obvious in the MANIFEST where META.yml comes from.
1373 - Fixed $_ clobbering in ExtUtils::Manifest functions.
1374 - [rt.cpan.org 2591] some LD_RUN_PATH thing (Marek Rouchal)
1375 - Added core.\d+ files to 'make clean' [rt.cpan.org 2543] (Slaven Rezic)
1376 - INST_* targets were expanded too early (Stas Bekman)
1377 - Adding ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes (bytes.pm backwards compat wrapper)
1378 - Fixing MM_MacOS so it will compile on 5.5.x machines (use bytes wrapper)
1379 * Reducing perldepend set of CORE/*.h dependencies to what 5.5.3 has.
1380 5.5.3 should be able to compile XS again.
1381 * Eliminating fakethr.h and perlsfio.h from VMS's perldepend as they
1382 sometimes don't get installed.
1383 - ExtUtils::Install was making a few directories even with the
1384 "don't really do it" switch on (Slaven Rezic)
1385 * can build static linked perl binaries again. Probably damaged in
1386 6.06_01 when $self->{MAKEFILE} became FIRST_MAKEFILE. (Nick Clark)
1388 6.10_03 Fri Apr 11 00:21:25 PDT 2003
1389 * Added NO_META WriteMakefile() option to suppress generation of
1390 META.yml. (Spoon, rt.cpan.org 2359)
1391 - Spurious linebreak in uninstall_from_sitedirs on VMS (Craig Berry)
1392 * A bit after 6.05 man page names would come out as lib::Foo::Bar
1393 if the module name didn't contain a ::. Found with podulators.
1395 * Skipping installation of RCS ,v files.
1396 * 'make ci' was busted between 6.05 and 6.06_01. Fixed. (Andreas)
1397 - 'make test' was broken when there's no tests. Introduced in 6.06_03.
1399 - Solving some directory depth problems in tests on oldish VMS systems.
1401 - Fixing MM_MacOS so it compiles on UTF-8 systems. (Jarkko)
1402 - Making find_perl() more talkative when the version check fails
1404 - Fixing PERL_ARCHIVE on VMS so XS can compile again (Craig Berry)
1406 6.10_02 Mon Apr 7 00:57:15 PDT 2003
1407 * Removed 2>&1 experiment introduced in 6.10_01 for all non-Unixen
1408 except for OS/2. Thought Perl might emulate `... 2>&1`. It doesn't.
1411 6.10_01 Sun Apr 6 19:31:42 PDT 2003
1412 - Making install "Skip ... (unchanged)" message happen consistently
1413 - Checking file sizes as well as modification times when deciding
1414 to skip installing a file.
1415 - OS/2 was using $(RM) instead of $(RM_F) (Ilya)
1416 - OS/2 needs .dll removed on failed build (Ilya)
1417 - fixin() was assuming that rename() can overwrite the target (Ilya)
1418 - manifypods target was empty if there are no pods to manify. Put in
1419 at least $(NOECHO) $(NOOP)
1420 - Cygwin test to check for finding pod2man when building the perl core
1421 removed. No longer relevent.
1422 - Small fixes for dmake (Mattia Barbon)
1423 * Added "Reporting bugs" section to the PATCHING doc.
1424 - Minor bug in compile test missed ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid
1425 - Removing $(VERSION_FROM) from Makefile dependency. It was too
1426 annoying to rebuild the Makefile every time the module changed.
1427 Mentioned it in the FAQ instead.
1428 - Fixing PERL_ARCHIVE macro on VMS. Apparently it never appeared
1429 properly before. (Craig Berry)
1430 - Fixing ECHO on dmake.
1431 - Adding os_flavor() and os_flavor_is()
1432 - Making basic.t error output combine STDOUT & STDERR for easier
1434 * ExtUtils::Manifest will now work case insensitively.
1435 - Fixed 'subroutine redefined' warnings in 00compile.t
1436 - Fixed it so typemaps are only looked for in the perl core library.
1437 * Hacking around VMS filesystem problems reconstructing package names
1438 from filenames in ExtUtils::Installed. (Jesper Naur)
1440 # There was no 6.06, I jumped straight to 6.10_XX because there's been
1441 # so much change between 6.05 and now.
1443 6.06_05 Mon Mar 31 02:44:11 PST 2003
1444 - Syncing into bleadperl. Minor nits revealed...
1445 - AutoSplit open filehandle bug was fixed in bleadperl. Averted a
1446 warning because of this.
1447 - hint files were only being loaded if . happened to be in @INC.
1448 A bug/feature of File::Spec was stripping off the current dir from
1449 the front of hintfile paths causing Perl to look for them in @INC.
1451 - Now checking $! for errors if a hint file returns undef
1452 - compile test was testing all of perl! Scaling back to just ExtUtils/
1454 6.06_04 Sun Mar 30 20:34:39 PST 2003
1455 - Now looking for ExtUtils::xsubpp through @INC rather than just
1456 the perl core directories. This helps ExtUtils::ParseXS.
1457 - Systems which don't put their libraries under their $Config{prefix}
1458 (OS X, Debian) weren't putting their libraries in the spot declared
1459 in Config. It was going under $Config{prefix}.
1460 - Prerequisites check now deals better with X.Y_Z style alpha versions
1461 - ExtUtils::Liblist->ext() was using $Config{perllibs} which is a 5.6.1
1462 thing. Falling back to $Config{libs} if perllibs isn't there.
1463 - ExtUtils::Command::MM now reads from @ARGV if called with no
1464 args. Makes the one liner a bit simpler.
1465 * Restored ExtUtils::Liblist::ext() for backwards compatibility.
1466 Missing since 5.6.1.
1467 - Switching to relative dirs for self-building to shorten
1468 command line lengths.
1469 - Fixing minor test warning on VMS when compiling ExtUtils::Manifest
1470 - Skipping STDIN read prompt() tests on 5.5.3. Can't test due to
1471 eof() not honor tied handles.
1472 - Config.pm on 5.5.3 doesn't have any concept of vendor*. This was
1473 causing warnings when generating the Makefile.
1475 6.06_03 Sat Mar 29 19:44:53 PST 2003
1476 - Added AUTHOR and ABSTRACT_FROM info to Makefile.PL for ppd generation.
1477 - Added echo() method to portably echo text to a file.
1478 - Worked around 5.8.0 eval 'require Foo::Bar' bug causing MakeMaker
1479 to think modules weren't installed.
1480 - Modernized VMS doc_*_install targets
1481 - Changed some $(PERL) -e "print ..." code to use $(ECHO).
1482 - Replaced uses of Delete/NoLog/NoConfirm with $(RM_F) in MM_VMS
1483 - Fixed some duplicate macros making MMS happy.
1484 - Fixed $ExtUtils::MM_VMS::Revision. It was just the $VERSION before.
1485 - Fixed ExtUtils::Command::MM::perllocal_install(), uninstall(),
1486 warn_if_old_packlist().
1487 * Pulling File::Spec::VMS::fixpath() and eliminate_macros() into MM_VMS
1488 as the new cannonical location. They never should have been in F::S
1490 * ExtUtils::Command::eqtime() would truncate the file being equalized!
1491 Holdover from exclusive .exists usage.
1492 - Cleaned up hard coded 'echo' and '@' to $(ECHO) and $(NOECHO)
1493 - $(SAY) is now $(ECHO) on VMS
1494 - Moved rogue initializations from tools_other() to init_others()
1495 - Normalized MM_VMS's tools_other() to mostly use its superclass.
1496 - split_command() was off-by-one when calculating max command line
1497 lengths causing it to run over on VMS
1498 - made split_command() a bit smarter, taking into account some macro
1500 - Fixed initialization of OBJECT, DISTNAME and LDFROM on VMS
1501 - Fixed *_install target uses of File::Spec.
1502 - Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish wrapper around vmsish so MM_VMS
1503 can be compiled on non-VMS machines. For testing.
1504 * Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial about writing modules with
1506 - Removed "always use h2xs" dogma.
1507 - Added compile & POD test
1508 * 'make distdir' now generates META.yml module meta-data file.
1509 Proof of concept. Have to syncronize with Module::Build.
1510 * Added maniadd() to ExtUtils::Manifest to add entries to the MANIFEST
1511 * ExtUtils::Command::chmod was not interpreting file permissions as
1512 octal. Also, docs & tests slightly wrong (thanks Stas Bekman).
1513 - ExtUtils::Install was hard coding blib/lib and blib/arch, unportable
1516 6.06_02 Mon Dec 23 20:39:57 PST 2002
1517 * Lots of Win32 fixes busted between 6.05 and 6.06_01.
1518 * split_command() tests still not happy on Win32. Problems with
1519 shell vs Makefile escaping makes testing difficult.
1520 * VMS still broken. Need to convert File::Spec method calls back to
1521 object method calls so the weird FS::VMS->eliminate_macros() and
1522 fixpath() work again.
1524 6.06_01 Thu Dec 19 00:14:49 PST 2002
1525 - Andreas found that when building the core it is desirable for
1526 MakeMaker to use a relative path to perl.
1527 - File::Spec->catfile() has a bug where the resulting file may not be
1528 canonicalized. This was causing problems when generating manpaths.
1529 MakeMaker now uses its own fixed override for catfile().
1530 - Fixed the POD recognition regex to properly catch /=head\d/ tags.
1531 * Added a PATCHING guideline document.
1532 - Updated the class hierarchy in NOTES.
1533 - Installed.t now cleans up after itself better.
1534 - Steve Purkis rewrote the manifypods system to use Pod::Man
1535 rather than pod2man. Its now portable and manifypods() moved from
1536 MM_Unix to MM_Any. As a result, lots of icky and redudant code went
1537 away. This also removes the POD2MAN macro, but noone should be
1539 - "make manifypods" now works on Win32
1540 - "make manifypods" is now be faster
1541 - Made MM_Unix->find_perl more portable. Eliminated MM_Win32->find_perl
1542 override. MM_VMS->find_perl remains.
1543 * find_perl() can now handle filenames with spaces in them (RT448)
1544 * find_perl() on Win32 no longer produces spurious "File Creation error"
1545 messages (perlbug ID 20020709.001)
1546 - Removed unfinished and unused maybe_command_in_dirs()
1547 - Removed dead SelfLoader cruft from MM_Unix.
1548 - Fixed PPD generation when the ppd contains quotes (RT1473)
1549 - Fixed PPD generation on VMS
1550 - Moved Win9x specific subdir_x() code from MM_Unix to MM_Win95
1551 * Craig Berry fixed hint files on VMS
1552 - Added the perl_onliner() method to generate portable, safe one-liners
1553 - Changing hardcoded $self->{MAKEFILE} to $(FIRST_MAKEFILE).
1554 * Rafael Garcia-Suarez made MakeMaker ignore Subversion control files
1556 - Added MAKEFILE_OLD macro.
1557 * No longer generating man pages by default on VMS.
1558 - Improved DISTNAME docs
1559 * Documented DISTVNAME and VERSION_SYM
1561 - Seperated dist_core() into dist, tardist, uutardist, tarfile,
1562 zipdist, zipfile and shdist_target methods. Allows elimination
1563 of redundant code in MM_VMS.
1564 - Replaced WARN_IF_OLD_PACKLIST, DOC_INSTALL and UNINSTALL
1565 one-liners with ExtUtils::Command::MM functions
1566 - Replaced VMS hand-rolled perl code for TOUCH, CHMOD, RM_F and RM_RF
1567 with ExtUtils::Command functions. Added TEST_F.
1568 - Adding clean_subdirs target and clean_subdirs_target() method to
1569 generate same. This allows easier overriding of an unportable part
1570 of the clean target.
1571 - Defined DEV_NULL for MacOS
1572 - Removed ROOTEXT from MM_MacOS, apparently unused
1573 - Added $(DIRFILESEP) macro and init_DIRFILESEP to avoid
1574 hardcoding / or \. Reduces code duplication in the MM_* modules.
1575 - Added init_platform() and platform_constants() for OS specific
1576 macros. Moved OS specific macros from constants() overrides there.
1577 - Added init_VERSION() to setup various *VERSION* macros.
1578 - Added default wraplist() to make porting easier.
1579 - Added makemakerdflt_target() to guarantee 'all' is the default
1581 - Added special_targets() to handle things like .PHONY and make sure
1583 - Added init_linker() to initialize linker relatied macros.
1584 - MM_MacOS constants() disolves
1585 Moved MACPERL_SRC, MACPERL_LIB, MACPERL_INC from init_main() to
1587 Moved DEFINE and INC tweaking from constants() to init_main()
1588 Moved DEFINE_VERSION & XS_DEFINE_VERSION from constants() to
1590 Eliminated MODULES. Unused and its the same as TO_INST_PM
1591 Moved .INCLUDE from constants() to special_targets()
1593 - MM_NW5 constants() & init_others() disolves
1594 Moved LIBPTH, BASE_IMPORT, NLM_VERSION, MPKTOOL, TOOLPATH from
1595 init_others() to init_platform()
1596 Moved INCLUDE and PATH definitions from constants() to
1598 Moved BOOT_SYMBOL, NLM_SHORT_NAME, PATH and INCLUDE from
1599 constants() to init_platform()
1601 - MM_Unix constants() goes on a diet
1602 Moved all macro definitions to init_* methods.
1603 Added MM_REVISION for completeness
1604 Using wraplist() instead of manual joining
1605 Moved .NO_CONFIG_REC, .SUFFIXES and .PHONY to special_targets()
1606 Moved makemakerdflt: to makemakerdeflt_target()
1607 Moved INST_{STATIC,DYNAMIC,BOOT} to init_INST()
1608 Moved EXPORT_LIST, PERL_ARCHIVE & PERL_ARCHIVE_AFTER to init_linker().
1609 Moved PERL_MALLOC_DEF to init_platform()
1611 - MM_VMS constants() goes on a diet
1612 Moved DEFINE from constants() to init_main()
1613 Moved OBJECT & LDFROM from constants() to init_others()
1614 Moved MM_VMS_REVISION and PERL_VMS to init_platform
1615 Added MM_VMS_VERSION
1616 Moved DEFINE_VERSION, XS_DEFINE_VERSION and MAKEMAKER changes to
1618 Moved .SUFFIXES changes to special_targets() override.
1619 Eliminated $self->{PM_TO_BLIB}. Its redundant with $self->{PM}.
1620 constants() now consists only of fixpath() calls.
1622 - MM_Win32 constants() goes away
1623 Moved .USESHELL to special_targets() override.
1624 Everything else was redundant.
1626 - Added $(VERSION_FROM) to $(MAKEFILE) dependencies. Helpful for
1627 XS builds where the version number is very sensitive.
1628 - export_list(), perl_archive() and perl_archive_after() consolodated
1630 - Added MM_NW5_VERSION, MM_Unix_VERSION, MM_Win32_VERSION,
1632 - Eliminated duplicate code in constants() overrides
1633 - Added all_target() for easier customization of what's run by default
1634 - Eliminated duplicate top_targets() overrides
1635 - Made tool_autosplit() method portable. Moved to MM_Any. Eliminated
1637 - Adding realclean_subdirs target and realclean_subdirs_target()
1638 method to generate same. This allows easier overriding of an
1639 unportable part of the realclean target.
1640 - Added oneliner() to create portable perl one-liners.
1641 - Craig Berry found some typos in ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid's VMS part
1642 * ExtUtils::Install did not work on MacPerl due to a hardcoded '.'
1643 * prompt() will now read from STDIN.
1644 - Craig Berry made sure extliblist() is always called even if LIBS
1645 is explicitly set to empty.
1646 * Added DESTDIR to make repacking easier.
1647 * $(*PREFIX) are returned to the INSTALL* variables.
1648 * Split $(PREFIX) into $(PERLPREFIX) and $(PREFIX). The former
1649 holds the location of the core libraries. The latter is the
1650 optional override prefix supplied by the user.
1651 * PREFIX overrides all other *PREFIXes when set in the Makefile.PL.
1652 This restores "make install PREFIX=foo".
1653 - Added quote_literal() to handle some shell quoting.
1654 - ExtUtils::MM_VMS now compilable on non-VMS platforms.
1655 - J. D. Laub made MakeMaker honor $Config{installstyle}
1656 - Renaming on OS/2 requires the target file to be removed.
1657 Partially fixed by Ilya, should be applied universally later.
1658 - Default MANIFEST.SKIP not catching files in subdirs. Fixed by Ilya.
1659 - Ilya fixed ExtUtils::Liblist->ext when called outside MakeMaker.
1660 - realclean was duplicating work already done by clean
1661 - Adding an explicit LICENSE
1662 - Cleaning up ExtUtils::Install docs.
1663 - ExtUtils::Install::uninstall() now has default verbose and
1664 dont_execute arguments.
1665 - Added some basic ExtUtils::Install tests
1666 - Fixed ExtUtils::Install::install() for relative dirs
1667 - Added split_command() and max_exec_len() to deal with long
1669 - Seperated escape_newlines() from quote_literal(). This may
1671 - pm_to_blib() now generated with split_command(). 3x speedup.
1672 - added init_dist() to initialize distribution constants
1673 - ExtUtils::Install::pm_to_blib() working around open filehandle
1674 bug in AutoSplit for systems with mandatory file locking.
1676 6.05 Tue Aug 27 16:09:51 PDT 2002
1677 - Output format of the hint file verbose diagnostic is now in
1678 a format native to the OS, so it broke a test on non-Unixen.
1680 6.04 Mon Aug 26 18:31:11 PDT 2002
1681 - Little fix for pre-5.8 Cygwin test to get the shared library names
1683 * disttest on Win9X broken because of forgotten tabs
1684 * WriteMakefile argument verification should now be accurate
1685 - Documented the LD flag.
1686 * Documented prompt()
1687 * vendor install was not adding to packlist or updating perllocal.
1688 - Supporting $Config{vendorarchexp} and $Config{vendorlibexp}.
1689 - Fixed conflict on VMS between logical names and directories
1691 - Fixed space-vs-tab bug on Netware (bleadperl 17579)
1692 - Mysterious NetWare fix from Ananth (bleadperl 17376)
1693 - Support OPTIMIZE in MacOS (bleadperl 17347)
1694 - Support hints in MacOS (mutation of bleadperl 17347)
1695 * Default man installation directories were using $(MAN*EXT) to
1696 generate the directory name. This turned out to be wrong more
1697 often than right, so we'll use man1 and man3 hard-coded.
1698 - Debian folks fixed the doc_install targets so the Appending
1699 diagnostic gives the correct directory for perllocal.pod
1700 * Added ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ
1701 - Quieted some warnings on MacOS (bleadperl 17669)
1703 6.03 Wed Jun 19 17:06:14 EDT 2002
1704 - Documented that we're clamping down on cargo-cult MakeMaker
1706 - Eased up the parameter verification to leave errant values alone.
1707 - Doug MacEachern documented LDDLFLAGS and added to known parameters.
1708 - Possible fix for XS compiles on Cygwin for pre 5.8 perls.
1710 6.02 Sat Jun 15 19:46:06 EDT 2002
1711 - ExtUtils::Installed->modules() was broken in scalar context
1712 - Sync bleadperl 16922: Netware updates from Ananth Kesari.
1713 - Sync bleadperl 16922: MM_NW5 tests
1714 - Sync bleadperl 16938 & 16974: MM_MacOS->macify fixes from pudge.
1715 - Sync bleadperl 16989 & 16942: Small test fixes for MacPerl from pudge.
1716 - Improved WriteMakefile param verification to differenciate between
1717 parameters which don't exist and those that just take strings/numbers.
1719 * Documented TEST_VERBOSE
1721 6.01 Thu May 30 14:48:57 EDT 2002
1722 - MacOS Classic fixes from Pudge: recursive make repair,
1723 post_initialize() now used, DEFINE & INC work with relative paths,
1724 removed dead hybrid method/function call code.
1725 * WriteMakefile now a bit more tolerant of wrong arguments, it will
1726 warn and try to soldier on rather than just vomiting.
1727 - Netware whitespace nits (bleadperl@16811)
1728 - Netware Perl version number tag when building dynamic libraries
1729 needs to match the current perl version instead of being hard coded
1730 (a mutation of bleadperl@16851)
1731 - OS/2 bug in TEST_F target found by John Poltorak (bleadperl@16839)
1732 - README in 6.00 still declared this as alpha.
1734 6.00 Sat May 25 17:14:09 EDT 2002
1735 - VMS 8-level limit test tweak (bleadperl@16764)
1736 * Here goes nothing.
1738 5.96_01 Wed May 22 19:11:09 EDT 2002
1739 - Fixed ExtUtils::testlib so it doesn't taint @INC.
1740 - Fixed ExtUtils::Command so it groks % shell wildcard on VMS.
1742 - MM now depends on Test::Harness 2.00 on VMS else tests with -T
1743 won't work, command line too long.
1744 - Added Craig's patch to fix limited level VMSs in the core.
1746 5.95_01 Sat May 18 14:40:12 EDT 2002
1747 - Fixed ExtUtils::testlib so it has a reasonable chance of working
1750 5.94_02 Fri May 17 17:16:04 EDT 2002
1751 - Fixing Manifest.t test for relative @INC when core testing.
1753 5.94_01 Fri May 17 14:53:54 EDT 2002
1754 - Small NetWare change from Novell.
1755 - worked around 5.005_03's lack of a $Config{siteprefix} and
1757 - Small cross compilation changes (bleadperl 16582, 16548)
1760 - Fixing ExtUtils::Command tests for VMS shell wildcard differences.
1761 - Fixing ExtUtils::Installed tests so they don't go looking at already
1762 installed installed lists.
1764 5.93_01 Mon May 6 00:54:39 EDT 2002
1765 - fixed basic.t for limited depth VMS systems
1766 * MM_BeOS was totally hosed by a typo.
1767 - Made the ExtUtils::Command docs clear about how things come
1769 - Quieted nmake banners in disttest
1771 * Backporting to 5.005_03
1772 - 'require 5.006' statements to 5.00503
1773 - Removing uses of File::Spec::Functions
1774 - Adding MODE arg to mkdir()
1775 - Changing uses of 'our' to 'use vars'
1776 - Changing uses of 'no warnings' to 'local $SIG{__WARN__}'
1777 - Changing 3-arg opens to 2-arg
1778 - Changing 'open my $fh' to 'open FH'
1779 - 5.005_03's File::Find doesn't have 'no_chdir'
1781 5.92_01 Mon Apr 29 23:09:38 EDT 2002
1782 - Fixing case of modules with no .pm files on VMS.
1783 - LDLOADLIBS fix for NetBSD and easier overriding (bleadperl 16233)
1784 * syncing in MM_MacOS from pudge.
1785 - syncing in NetWare fixes (16266 & 16190)
1786 - Cleaning up MM_NW5.pm somewhat.
1788 5.91_02 Wed Apr 24 01:29:56 EDT 2002
1789 - Adjustments to tests for inclusion in the core.
1791 5.91_01 Wed Apr 24 00:11:06 EDT 2002
1793 * A failing Makefile.PL in a subdir will now kill the whole
1794 makefile making process.
1795 * "make install PREFIX=something" will no longer work. Sorry.
1796 - Now supporting the usevendorprefix %Config setting
1797 - Tests now guaranteed to run in alphabetical order.
1798 - Allowing $VERSION = 0.
1801 - Missing prerequisite warning malformatted.
1802 - INSTALL*MAN*DIR and INST_MAN*DIR weren't allowed on the command
1804 * For years now skipcheck() has been returning a different
1805 value than what was documented.
1806 - Partially reversing Ken's "speed up ExtUtils::Manifest" patch
1807 from 5.51_01 so MANIFEST overrides MANIFEST.SKIP.
1808 * Fixed PREFIXification so it works on Win32.
1809 * Fixed PREFIXification so it works on VMS.
1810 - Fixed INSTALLMAN*DIR=none on VMS.
1811 * NetWare fixes (bleadperl@16076)
1812 - Craig Berry fixed some macro corruption on VMS.
1813 - Systems configured to not have man pages now honored thanks to
1815 - Hack to allow 5.6.X versions of ExtUtils::Embed use MY implicitly.
1816 - Moved use of glob out of MM_Unix so MacPerl could build
1819 - Shortening directory levels to accomodate old VMS's
1820 - was using a slightly wrong prefix for the prefix tests
1823 - Documenting VERBINST
1825 5.90_01 Thu Apr 11 01:11:54 EDT 2002
1827 * Implementation of the new PREFIX logic.
1828 * Added new INSTALL targets:
1830 INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR
1831 INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR
1832 INSTALLVENDORBIN INSTALLVENDORLIB INSTALLVENDORARCH
1833 SITEPREFIX VENDORPREFIX
1834 * INSTALLDIRS=site now properly using $Config{siteprefixexp}
1835 (Thieved from Debian. Thanks!)
1836 * Added INSTALLDIRS=vendor & support for vendor directories
1837 (Thieved from Debian. Thanks!)
1840 - nmake syntax nits from Mattia Barbon
1841 - ExtUtils::Packlist fix for files with spaces in them from Jan Dubois
1843 - Old, old, old dmake bug in MM_Win32->pm_to_blib fixed by Nick
1847 - Purging leftover PDP compiler flags.
1849 5.55_03 Sat Apr 6 21:57:01 EST 2002
1850 - Reversing "fix" for RT 444. It wasn't really fixed and it
1851 caused havoc with Compress::Zlib and Tk.
1853 5.55_02 Sat Apr 6 03:09:15 EST 2002
1855 - Craig Berry fixed install on VMS (again, I munged the last patch)
1856 - MakeMaker might not be recognizing it's in PERL_SRC on Win32.
1858 - For some reason MM_VMS was using $Config{arch} instead of
1860 - Fix (well, hack) for creating ABSPERL on VMS.
1861 - Quieting some warnings revealed by ExtUtils::Constant
1862 - test_via_script had a typo and forgot INST_ARCHLIB
1865 - INST.t has to tell MakeMaker it's in the PERL_CORE
1866 - Fixing expected values of INST_* when building the core.
1868 5.55_01 Thu Apr 4 23:58:06 EST 2002
1870 * Long deprecated INST_EXE completely removed.
1871 - Removing TEST_LIBS constant (never seen in a stable MM anyway)
1872 - Added $default argument to prefixify() for safer prefixification.
1875 - $mm->{PERM_*} were not being set
1876 - fixin() redundantly chmod'ing scripts. Let the Makefile do that.
1877 - The above means MM_Unix will now compile cleanly under strict
1878 * init_dirscan's search for Makefile.PL's will no longer look
1880 * Fixed running tests when there are t/'s in subdirs.
1881 - MM_DOS inheriting from MM_Unix instead of MM_Win32. DJGPP
1882 appears to be unix-like (bleadperl@15650)
1883 - Escaping constants with # in them so they're not confused as
1884 make comments (bleadperl)
1885 * ExtUtils::MM_Win95 didn't return a true value
1886 - Fixing disttest when perl is a relative path.
1887 * Fixed disttest & tests in subdirs on Win95
1888 - Fixed recursive Makefile.PL scan on VMS so it skips the distdir
1889 - Fixed a bug when an alternative MAKEFILE is specified and you're
1890 using something other than a Makefile.PL (RT 444)
1891 - Quieting uninit warning when there are no tests.
1894 - Documented INSTALLMAN*DIR == 'none' feature.
1897 - Paul Green's which_perl patch to build a proper Perl on systems
1898 that use command extensions.
1899 - basic.t's Makefile.PL PREFIX call wasn't properly quoted for VMS
1901 - little initialization glitch in MM_Win32.t
1904 - INST_* constants moved to init_INST
1905 - INSTALL* constants moved to inst_INSTALL
1906 * Internal warning supression removed.
1907 - Temporarily turning off SelfLoader in MM_Unix so warnings
1908 have the right line numbers.
1910 5.54_01 Sat Mar 30 02:32:44 EST 2002
1912 * Added FULLPERLRUN and FULLPERLRUNINST
1915 - hint files were made a little too noisy in 5.53_01
1918 - adjusting for NFS time drift
1919 - basic.t was finding the wrong perl in the core
1922 - FULLPERL* PERL* setup moved to init_PERL
1924 5.53_02 Fri Mar 29 04:47:44 EST 2002
1925 - Adjusted for Perl core. Synced into bleadperl.
1927 5.53_01 Fri Mar 29 00:13:02 EST 2002
1929 - Removed duplicate NAME macro definition
1930 - Fixed makemakerdflt target for VMS
1931 * bleadperl@11460 introduced a bug with recursive Makefile.PL's not
1932 having '.' in @INC. PDL should build now.
1933 * MANIFEST.SKIP only working on file names, not full relative paths.
1934 Only since 5.51_01 (RT 413)
1935 * make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 was busted by 5.50_01 (RT 423)
1936 * Error messages from dying Makefile.PL's and hint files were
1937 accidentally supressed in 5.48_04. Fixed.
1938 * Makefile.PL's are supposed to be run in package main. 5.48_04
1940 * Fixing installing on VMS.
1942 5.52_01 Tue Mar 26 00:24:26 EST 2002
1944 * ActivePerl 5.6.1/build 631 now 100%
1945 - Fixed some SelfLoader warnings
1946 * ExtUtils::MM_Win32 not subclassed off of ExtUtils::MM_Any properly
1947 - Bug in local $ENV{FOO} was causing failures in MM_Win32 tests.
1948 Compensating for the bug.
1949 - $Config{prefixexp} is sometimes bad on ActivePerl, compensating
1950 - Accidentally left htmlifypods tests in MM_Win32 tests
1953 - Expanding Known Good list
1954 - Adding Known Programs to README
1956 5.51_01 Mon Mar 18 01:37:02 EST 2002
1958 - Removing xsubpp and typemap from the distribution. These are not
1959 Perl version independent files and should not be upgraded.
1960 - Removing ExtUtils::Embed. Version specific module and should
1962 - Removing ExtUtils::Constant. Not directly tied to MakeMaker.
1963 Will be distributed seperately by Nick Clark.
1966 * realclean now deletes 'dist' directory.
1969 * Fixing ExtUtils::Installed for VMS
1970 * Fixed it so MakeMaker can build itself without needing an eariler
1972 * Fixed ExtUtils::Installed so packlists work on VMS
1973 * ExtUtils::MM_VMS test had a stupid typo that prevented most
1974 of the tests from running.
1975 - Fixing VMS so 'mmk' is always 'mmk all' (bleadperl 15218)
1976 - ExtUtils::MM_Any->catfile was calling catdir
1977 - Added Ken William's "speed up ExtUtils::Manifest" patch.
1978 - Added Nick Clark's return value of manifest routines patch
1980 - Merging in bleadperl changes (14438, 14453, 14611, 14612, 14622,
1981 14655, 14677, 14688, 14902, 15023, 15187, 15367)
1982 - bleadperl change 15325 (VMS 'mmk all' hack) rejected.
1983 - ExtUtils::MM_Any->test_via_harness() now using -MExtUtils::testlib
1984 instead of -I's. This keeps the command line shorter on VMS, but
1985 it means TEST_LIB doesn't work anymore. May prove problematic.
1986 - PERLRUN now uses FULLPERL instead of PERL. This avoids
1987 accidental use of miniperl. May cause problems in the core.
1988 - Fixed test_via_harness() on VMS so it uses PERLRUN.
1989 - ExtUtils::Manifest wrongly handling MANIFEST on VMS.
1990 - ExtUtils::Manifest::maniskip broken due to misuse of /o on a regex.
1992 5.50_01 Mon Mar 4 23:44:48 EST 2002
1994 - htmlifypods and all HTML targets have been removed. It didn't
1995 work properly. A target for HTMLifying of docs will be
1996 added sometime in the future (read: send a patch).
1997 - Deprecated ROOTEXT variable removed (its been deprecated for
1998 more than five years).
1999 - Removed ExtUtils::Miniperl from the CPAN distribution. Can't
2000 see how its useful outside the core.
2003 * Emacs backup files (ie. *~) are no longer copied into blib
2004 (this means you won't get Foo.pm~ accidentally installed anymore).
2005 - prefixify() now returns if the prefixification worked or not.
2006 - added the Perl patchlevel info to the description embedded in DLLs
2007 (Ilya Zakharevich perl change 14810)
2010 * 5.49_01 broke anything that depended on the MM class to be loaded
2011 with ExtUtils::MakeMaker, like CPAN. Temporarily fixed.
2012 * Many places wrongfully assume MM methods can be called as class
2013 methods! Inside and outside of MakeMaker.
2014 * DOS now acts like Win32 instead of Unix. This should be less wrong.
2015 - Netware tweak from Ananth Kesari (perl change 14780)
2018 * made the docs about the behavior of PREFIX a bit more vague
2019 reflecting its odd behavior.
2020 - Replaced references to %Config with things people are more likely
2021 to understand in PREFIX & LIB docs.
2022 - Put PREFIX before LIB in the docs.
2024 [[ Internal Refactorings ]]
2025 - File::Spec wrappers consolidated in MM_Any
2026 - test_via_harness/script consolidated in MM_Any
2027 * Added ExtUtils::Command::MM to replace large -e "one-liners"
2028 * Added ExtUtils::MM_UWIN, took UWIN specific code out of MM_Unix.
2029 * Added ExtUtils::MM_DOS, took some DOS specific code out of MM_Unix
2030 - Added a dist() override to MM_OS2.
2031 - Took the OS/2 specific code out of MM_Unix's dist()
2032 - Starting to quote as many command line switches as possible
2033 to make VMS have to override less of MM_Unix.
2035 5.49_01 Mon Feb 4 00:42:40 EST 2002
2036 - Default TEST_LIBS now contains absolute paths, so tests can
2037 chdir without breaking @INC.
2038 - Some bug fixes in MM_Win32 were missing in MM_NW5.
2039 - LLIBPERL was not being set.
2040 - Gisle Aas fixed a warning in prompt when the user hits ctrl-D
2041 or pipes STDIN to /dev/null.
2042 - VMS's test is now a proper ->can check.
2043 - Stray newline in Command.t causing havoc (bleadperl 14441)
2045 * Lots of internal changes. Everything from here on is an internal
2047 - Broke ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid out into its own .pm. Temporary.
2048 - Broke MM and MY out into their own .pm's. Possibly temporary.
2049 - Broke ExtUtils::MM_Win95 out of ExtUtils::MM_Win32. MM_Win95
2050 is now an MM_Win32 subclass.
2051 - Removed wrapper methods from ExtUtils::Liblist that were
2052 defering File::Spec loading. Almost everything uses File::Spec
2053 - Changed most of the 'our's to 'use vars' in prep for 5.005_03
2055 - Changed ExtUtils::MakeMaker->import(...) cargo-cultery in MM_*
2056 modules to proper "use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(...)"
2057 - All non-Unix MM_* modules now directly inherit from MM_Unix.
2058 They did this before, but in a round-about way.
2059 - MM_* modules no longer directly muck with @MM::ISA. Instead
2060 @MM::ISA does that itself.
2061 - Removed unnecessary require of Exporter in many MM_* modules.
2062 - MM_Cygwin was using an MM_Unix function directly without have
2063 explicitly required MM_Unix.
2064 - Most of MM_NW5 was redundant with MM_Win32. So MM_NW5 is now
2065 a subclass of Win32 and the reduendant code has been deleted.
2066 - Replaced lots of calls to File::Spec->updir, curdir and rootdir
2067 with a global in MM_Unix. Should make things a bit faster.
2068 - Untabified ExtUtils::MakeMaker. I hate tabs.
2069 - "Which MM subclass should I use" logic moved from EU::MakeMaker
2071 - Deprecated EU::MakeMaker::Version_check deleted.
2073 5.48_04 Mon Jan 21 19:28:38 EST 2002
2074 - No longer requiring Test::More
2075 - Now tested to work with a clean 5.6.1
2076 - Stripped out $Revision based $VERSIONs.
2077 - Rolled in patches from p5p, vmsperl & VOS (14325, 14338, 14360, 14364)
2078 * hint files now run in a safer context. Only $self is available.
2079 - ExtUtils::testlib now provides absolute paths into @INC.
2083 5.48_03 Thu Jan 17 23:44:38 EST 2002
2084 * moved bin/inst to bin/instmodsh
2085 * Some Win32 backporting fixes. The -x switch doesn't seem to
2086 work on Win32/5.6.1.
2087 * Bug on Win32. MAKEMAKER variable not set properly.
2088 * _02 broke hints files. Now fixed.
2089 - Minor prereq error formatting glitch
2090 - ExtUtils::testlib no longer a thin wrapper around blib, now a
2091 thin wrapper around lib like it was. blib is noisy on 5.6.1.
2092 - Nick and chromatic found and fixed some warnings in the tests
2094 5.48_02 Wed Jan 16 19:11:26 EST 2002
2095 - Fixed some Win32 warnings. Needs more work.
2097 5.48_01 Wed Jan 16 15:10:28 EST 2002
2098 * Adapted from bleadperl@14303
2099 * Backported to 5.6.1
2100 - inst and xsubpp moved out of lib/ and into bin/
2101 - ExtUtils::testlib obsoleted. Now a thin wrapper around blib.pm
2102 ***--> Non-Unix platforms not tested at all! Please test and report
2103 back. Tests probably only need minor fixes.
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